Jeff Jenson has an interesting article titled, 'True Detective': Does Stephen King's 'The Lawnmower Man' explain the monster at dream's end? popwatch.ew.com
This is actually the most I've read about Lawnmower man -- ever.
From the portion discussing politics:
Like King’s story, True Detective traffics in culture war politics, and makes Republicans look like jerks , and clearly desires for them to reap what they sew, or just get reaped. The well-connected Reverend Tuttle tried to co-opt the Dora Lange investigation by lobbying for a task force to investigate anti-Christian crimes that would take charge of the case. And then there’s Hart’s father-in-law: In his single scene so far this season, Maggie’s well-to-do pop, clearly a political conservative, made a big impression by making snide comments about President Bill Clinton and complaining about sex-crazed young people wearing Goth make-up. “Things aren’t like they were when I was young. People said ma’am and sir. There was more dignity. People weren’t out in the streets yelling about their rights.”and from the section discussing "circle"
“The Lawnmower Man.” The titular character tells Harold that his overgrown backyard won’t be a problem to cut. “The taller, the better. Healthy soil, that’s what you got there, by Circe. That’s what I always say.”Circe? Circe was the Greek goddess of magic. Her niftiest trick: She could turn her enemies into animals. In Homer’s Odyssey, in fact, she seduced the great hero’s men and transformed them into pigs.
True Detective. The Carcosa cultists had “animal faces ” — masks — according to victim/survivor Toby Boulair [sp?], aka “Johnny Joni.” And all of True Detective’s “heroic” men? Total pigs.
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